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^Maroon And Gold
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Gary Thompson Editor-ir>-Chicf
Ann Stoddard AssisUnt Editor
Charlie Oates Feature Editor
Gary Thompson Feature Editor
Judith Chadwick Music Editor
Neil Johnson Art Editor
Reuben Askew .. . Staff Photographer
Lutber N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
BL’SINESS BOARD
Jack Lindley Business Manager
Ann Stoddard . . Circulation Manager
Carl E. Owen Printing Advisor
Worden Updyke Press Operator
SPORTS STAFF
Bill Walker Sports Editor
REPORTERS
Whitney Bradham George Hall
Doris Chrismon John McGowan
Walter Edmonds Margaret Stafford
John Fuquay Girleta Vestal
Yvonne Winsted Hillary Motsinger
Emily Scott
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1955
HOMECO.MING SENTI.MENTS
With Elon College all set to stage its
annual Homecoming celebation this week
end and with gala plans underway to enter
tain the returning alumni, the Maroon and
Gold has asked the alumni secretary, Mrs.
Scott Boyd, along with a number of the
college's student leaders, to express their
own views of this yearly event. Those
views, hopes and predictions are presented
in the following quoted statements:
"My hopes for Homecoming. 1955. Good
weather, continued excellent work by the
fludent Homecoming committee; a fine
spirit of participation by all the students,
ilhe faculty, the alumru and friends of the
college; the best dance in history; colorful
and original housing decorations: a parade
far superior to that staged by E.C.C.; and
a rousing pep rally and picnic supper; all
0 be climaxed by a football win over the
Catamounts of Cullowheel"
Mrs. Scott Boyd
Alumni Secretary
“As president of the Student Body of
BHon College, my prime interest is to see
more and bigger activities on our campus.
This is applied to Homecoming too. I would
fersonally like to see the different organ
izations on the campus get some collective
interest aroused and really work together
to make this the very best Homecoming
ever. Remember, the weekend will be only
as good as YOU make It.”
Furman Moseley,
President of Student Body
“Observing such a large expenditure of
those ingredients that are necessary for
a successful Homecoming Celebration, I
believe that I can safely predict that this
year’s festivities will be the biggest and
best that this college has ever known. In
my opinion, these festivities will mark the
beginning of a definite increase in what
may be called the Elonion spirit. I see this
festival as a time in which the student
body will by its support of the activities
offered make the observance Itself a view
of our Elon that we can be proud to put
on public display.
Jerry Dee Moi^e.
Vice-President of Student Body
■'We should pause for a moment and
realize just what Homecoming" means
o our alumni. They look forward each
year to returning to their Alma Mater. I
believe each and every one of us students
should work to make this year's Home
coming program one of the best ever. This
will take our effort and our effort alone
lo make It possible. Uet's show the old
grads that, although they are gone, they
are not forgotten."
Larry Barnes,
Chairman. Honor Council
"If the cooperation and the enthusiasm
shown by the student committees over the
approaching Homecoming weekend is an
Indication of the success of the weekend
Itself. It will be long remembered as one
pf the best But keep In mind that this is
not a weekend for committees only. They
must have the cooperation and enthusiasm
of all the students. Have you done your
pan."
Sis Beckwith.
Co-Chairman, Dance Commltaee
And, in presenting these sentiments con
cerning Homecoming, here's editorial
thanks to each of the writers for their
contributed comments.—GBT
MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, October 2g
the
quidnunc
By GARY THOMPSON
JUST ANOTHER ZANY MOMENT IN ELON PLAYER SHOW
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Welcome, Alumni, to the 1955 edition of
Homecomingl As many of you return to
■the Elon campus this weekend, you will
find new structures being erected, new
faces in the Colonnades and along the
campus walks, and the birth of a new
school spirit. You will also find that the
students are still just as friendly as in
by-gone days. The Quidnunc wants you to
know that we are all glad to have you
back, and we hope that the 1955 Home
coming observance will reign in your mind
as the "best yet. "
Chit Chat
Iota Tau Kappa's Alton Myers to take
that fatal step on December 17th. Sin
cerely wish you the best, A.R. . . . Jim Cal
houn really displayed school spirit at our
home game against the Indians of New
berry. If we had more Paul Whitemans
like "The Hoon, " there would be no ques
tion of and about the Elonites' school spirit.
The only catch is they may bring the stad
ium down with loud guffaws . . , Gary
Sears, '54 Elon grad, to be married on Oc
tober 29th. He is to hitch up with Miss
Audrey Gumm, of Portsmouth, Va. Here's
best of wishes, but it’s too bad that the
nuptials' will keep Gary from getting back
for Homecoming . . . South Dorm and The
Club House are seeking a telephone as
bad as the Carlton House is hoping for a
Coke machine. How 'bout it? . . . Mrs. Mc
Donald would like to know what happened
to her door-mat. Whoooo done it? We
might suggest that The Phantom be con
tacted . . . The Elon Players are seeking
new memi>ers for their organization . . .
The Phi Psi Cli staff is also on the prowl,
seeking suitable snapshots for the college
annual. If any student has usable photos,
please get in touch with coeditors Lois
Scott and Marie Weldon . . . Gayly hued
ribbons, symbolizing the colors of the fra
ternities and sororities, were worn all last
week. They seemed to add something extra
to the campus . . . The complaints have
been voiced loudly and frequently this fall
by the fraternities and .sororities that non
members have been occupying space in
the frat and soro rooms. This reporter has
been asked to state that only members of
the vaMous Greek-letter groups and their
invited guests are allowed in these rooms.
Tis said that drastic action may have to
be taken if the warning is not complied
with. Some of the Greek groups have had
signs prepared and placed on their doors.
Preacher Speaks
Gary 15. Thompson
Editor. Maroon and Gold
Dear Gary:
It was good to have so many students,
along with others of our community, in
our Elon College Comunity Church this
past Sunday. We appreciate the fraterni
ties and the sororities coming to worship
with u.‘=.
As minister of the church, may I take
this opportunity to extend to each stud
ent and member of the college community
a hearty invitation and welcome to our
services of worship held each Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock in Whitley Audi-
ioriuin on the campus.
The college choir leads us in the music,
and the choir members bring for us thJ
finest music possible in anthems and other
special arrangements. The services are ar
ranged with a desire to bring everyone into
the fellowship of God. Here in this service
will be opportunity for your acquaintance
ship with many members of our commun-
ity.
The special student class of the Sunday
School is held each Sunday niorning at 9:30
0 clock in the Society Hall. This is for all
college students. Evening Vespers are held
under auspices of the Student Christian
Association at 5 o cock each Sunday after
noon in the Parish House at the north-
vest corner of the campus.
Worship with your fellow men, and you
will enjoy living with them.
Sincerely,
W. J. Andes. Minister
Paraphernalia
The intramural football program seems
well underway . . . ITK or the Day Students
jppear to have the best aggregations thus
•ar ... The games offer a whoesome ac
tivity for those who participate, and there's
quite a bit of excitement offered for any
who care to apecUte ... The Elon Band
has shown up well at the home football
contests during the early season
Add Another Homecoming Note: Elon
students will be admitted to the Homecom
ing Dance on Friday evening upon the
presentation of their student activity cards.
Guests will be expected to pay *1.50 . .
Tis said that Yogi Frederick may accept
a job with the government come November.
■ . . And now in closing, have yourself a
darn good time at Homecoming.
It's just another of the many z.ny moments in the Elon Player production of “Out of the Fry-
ir.g Pan." the Broadway comedy that is to be presented in Mooney Auditorium for five "'ghts from
November 8th through 12th. It's a snapshot of Roger Rush, center, in the role of
a lunatic to convince the parents of i girl friend that the lodging house occupie > a
(theatre-loving youngsters is really quite a decent place to live. Leslie Johnston, as Tony, and Chuck
Oakley, as Norman, restrain their loony friend, making like ■ keepers" from a supposed asylum.
The three-act comedy is filled from curtain to curUin with just such mirth-provoking instances.
After Toitrinpa^ Eiiropetin Ndtions...
Religion Prof Writes Of Impressions
By DR. W. W. SLOAN
Sixty addresses in New Zealand
and Australia a year ago led to
an invitation for Mrs. Sloan and
me to speak to church and school
groups in the British Isles this
past summer. This, in turn, led
to some speaking through trans
lators in Holland, Germany and
Switzerland and to an invitation
to do the same thing next summer
in southern India.
In 1954 we flew around the
v;orld using forty-four planes. For
a number of years we had traveled
hy planes almost exclusively. We
had not used ships since a trip
around the world in 1937-38. We
felt it would be good to go by
ship again. Therefore this time
we went to England on the Queen
Mary and returned from France
on the Queen Elizabeth.
I had been in the British Isles
seven times before, but did not
feel that I knew the Briti^
people. This time we got acquaint
ed, for we were guests in a num
ber of homes. This was also true
on the European continent. In
England we found the people have
become much more like Ameri
cans in speech and customs.
Visit To Ireland
From London we flew to the
Republic of Ireland. A few days
later we went by train to Northern
Ireland, where we both gave sev
eral addresses. We then flew back
to Lopdon. and a day later went
to Birmingham to spend nine days
in a training conference for
y9unger ministers. I think we
learned more from those fellows
:nd from the girls of the college
vere we met than than they did
from us.
Our next conference was that
of the Student Christian Move
ment in Scotland. This is held
every three years. After some
speaking and sight-seeing in
.southern Scotland, we went to a
similar annual conference at Swan-
nock in England. I
EDITOR’S NOTE
Dr. W. W. Sloan, another guest
writer for the Maroon and Gold,
tells this week of interesting ex
periences enjoyed by him and
Mrs. Sloan during a visit to
England and other European
countries during the past sum
mer vacation. He writes in in
teresting manner of present-day
trends in education and religion
in many of the nations which
they visited.
penses for out-of-town games.
Religion In The Schools
Religion is taught in all schools
from what we call the first to the
twelfth grades. The data we teach
in Religion 11 and 12 are taken for
granted in England by the time
students reach college. Religious
leaching is to a large degree con
fined to schools as few pupils are
connected with churches.
Possibly that is why the re
ligion of those we met at these
student conferences does not seem
very practical. In Scotland the
entire emphasis was upon glori
fying God. Paul is the great hero.
Questions were constantly asked
?s to what Paul taught about this
01 that. When I suggested that I
was more concerned with what
Jesus taught I was told we do
not know what he taught, that
everything Jesus is credited with
saying may have been the ideas
of the gospel writers.
In England the emphasis was
little different. There the events
and teachings of the Bible were
generally considered to be symbols
or allegories of something else
Prayer plays quite a place in the
life of students, but is almost ex
clusively formal, ritual praying-
saying prayers.
Church .attendance Low
Until the last war the chief
church services were in the eve-
■■ u . l"'"®' evening gatherings were
These English university and forbidden from 1939 to 1945 A? a
college stuednts greatly interested consequence church attendance
us. They work a lot harder than | became very meager and has no
Elon students. Every school re- b e e n extensively revived I
quires a reading knowledge of | preached in a London church that
Latin, and many of them require j seats 1800 people Some
French and German. .A stiff en
trance examination must be passed.
At the end of the first year, from
a third to a half of the pupils fail
the next examination and are
permanently barred from school
A large number of the students
take part in athletics. They hope
to work up to the first teams
which represents the school. There
i'3 no such thing as an "athletic
scholarship. " Students buy all
their own equipment and uni
forms. They TOnsider making the
first team such an honor that they
gladly pay their own travel ex-
. years
ago hundreds were turned away
every Sunday evening. My preach
ing there was highly advertised in
advance and the church officers
were well pleased with the congre-
gation. but there were less than
two hundred present. It is because
the government has realized the
importance of religion that it now
requires religion to be taught in
every school below college level
If the church fails to teach re-
igion the government will do it
We also spent a few davs at an
international student work^amp
at Sheffield. Young people from
fourteen nations were making over
a bombed-out church building to
be used as a social center. We had
done a lot of baggage carrying
in getting to the camp. When we
arrived we were told that was the
day for an eight-mile hike through
moors and over a mountain. By
the time we got back we really
knew what bogs and moors are.
This work camp where young
people from many nations got to
know one another is one of the
encouraging things we found this
summer.
We attended a part of the Bap
tist World Congress in London
and saw there a more vigorous re
ligion than esiewhere in the British
Isles. However we were more en
couraged when we attended the
centennial meeting of the world
alliance of Y.M.C.A.'s in Paris. In
America the "Y" is sometimes ac
cused of having forgotten the "C"
in its name. This is not true of the
world organization. An active,
practical, ptogressive allegiance
to Christ was prominent in every
phase of the program.
^ Emphasis On Youth
Another encouraging emphasis
at Paris was that upon youth. The
last two presidents of the world
"Y" has been old men—the last
one was ninety. The new world
president is thirty-seven years old.
A third encouraging emphasis
was the activity of the “Y" in
Asia and Africa. There were large
numbers of delegates from both
continents. They took part in the
entire program, not as younger
brothers, but as equals. The new
president, a young economist who
has already served his nation as
an ambassador, is an African.
Charles D. Sherman, of Liberia.
At Geneva we visited the head
quarters of the World Council of
Churches and had tea with some
of the top people. The report of
what the Council is accomplishing
indicates real progress across na
tional lines.
Another encouraging experience
was to find the Iron Curtain bars
let down a bit. Six years ago we
were behind the Curtain an hour
and ten minutes, but every window
and door of our train was com
pletely blacked out and a guard
watched each door. This time we
flew over Communist Germany
from Hanover to Berlin and back
to Nuremberg. We were in the
Russian sector of Berlin twice and
were stopped by no one. I definite
ly do not want to live there, but the
situation is easing up a bit.
An Atoms Meet
We atltended the Atoms for
Peace conference and exhibits at
Geneva. The Russian exhibits
seemed to draw the largest crowds.
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By CHARLIE OATES
Homecoming . . . It's the most talked
about thing on the campus at this time,
but why not? It is the biggest thing of the
entire fall quarter, and there are so many
things planned to make it a time of ex
citement for both the students and the
returning grads.
We haven’t exactly been "on the in-
side” of the plans for this coming week
end, but the things that fall upon out
ears from here and there indicate that
this 1955 Homecoming will absolutely he
the “biggest and best one ever," and
that’ll really be something.
How well we remember that gala week
end of a year ago, with the big dance on
Friday night, the campus decorations and
ithe parade on Saturday, and then to top
it all off in great style was that overwhelm
ing 36 to 12 victory over the Catawba In
dians.
It seems to me that—as well as 1 can re
member—the sports writers were picking
Catawba to win that game, but the Christ
ians rose to one of the high points of
their 1954 season just to give the alumni a
.'reat for Homecoming.
We’ve got Western Carolina coming
down from the hills this weekend to furn
ish the opposition for our Christians in the
1,955 Homecoming feature, and ail of us
remember that terrific battle with the Cat
amounts at CuIIowhee last year, a battle
which ended in a 20-20 tie.
Not in many moons have Elon fans been
treated to such a comeback as the Ciirist-
lans made that night, for they were down
by three touchdowns and a 20 to 0 count
at half-time, and then Coach Varney fed
his boys a dose of dynamite and rolled for
three big scores in the final half to dead
lock the game.
One of the finest things about the an
nual Homecoming Day observance — we
should call it Homecoming Weekend — is
tlie boost it seems to give to the school
spirit. So far this year the school spirit has
appeared to be excellent, much better than
in recent years, but the forthcoming fes
tivities this weekend should boost it still
higher.
The big parade through Burlington, the
pep rally, the crowds of “homecomers" on
the campus, the gayly be-decked dormi
tories make it all something sort of special,
and to pick up that last year’s tie score and
make over into a victory is all we'll need to
cap it all.
There seems to be more than usual in
terest in the parade this fall, and it seems
likely that there will be more than the
usual number of floats. We always have
plenty of convertibles and pretty girls,
but floats have sometimes been noticeable
by their absence.
There’s quite an attractive prize all ready
for the group which prepares the winning
float, and the day students will be working
hard to keep the championship they won
last fall, but there are rumors from "lassie
land’’ over in West Dorm that the girls may
bid high with their creation.
♦ ♦ ♦ » *
The theme for the Homecoming Bail on
Friday night is “Gay Nineties," and such
a theme offers many and varied possibil
ities for decorations. The decoration com
mittee has kept pretty mum about the
axact scheme of decoration, but it's a sure
thing that Alumni Memorial Gym should
be a thing of beauty when the music starts
going round and round.
Not the least attraction for the Ball will
be the intermission program, which is to
feature tiie coronation of Queen Barbara
Carden and the presentation of the usual
bevy of beauties and beasts that compose
I;er court. It’s really quite impressive, and
here's hoping the public address is work
ing just right so we can get the names of
each and every sponsor. Wonder if tl'®
announcer could slip in a telephone num
ber here and there.
* * * * *
And now to shift from the sublime to a
much less pleasant thought. So manv'
people have mentioned it to me that I
feel impelled to mention the wretched
condition of that road—it could hardl.v h«
called a street—that stretches along
southern edge of the campus. The pot-hole!
and the dust make it a miserable exped
ience to drive or ride along it, and yet
there are so many students who have no
choice except to park beside it. One jus'
wonders when a road ' scraper was 13^'
used there. A good' scraping would do
good for the dust, but it might remedy the
potholes which threaten to swallow up *
car now and then. If your best friend is
missing one of these days, you might look
in the yaWning depths of one of those
holes.